Mark Faulkner
@markfaulkner24.bsky.social
Librarian, Knowledge Manager, Data Protection Officer and Records Manager. Let me know if I can be of any further help.
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Mark Faulkner
@markfaulkner24.bsky.social
· Nov 17
Bored, so I thought I'd 🧵 my #DoctorWho and professional #library, knowledge management, records management and book related passions together, and chart the occurrences they appear in the time travelling programme. No doubt I've missed some, so please let me know.
I had a dream last night where I saved a local community library and I've woken up in a good mood.
November 15, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I had a dream last night where I saved a local community library and I've woken up in a good mood.
I'm suing the BBC for $1 billion to finally make the third Tripods series.
November 15, 2025 at 8:06 AM
I'm suing the BBC for $1 billion to finally make the third Tripods series.
Ooh, intriguing. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
‘We had to dumb ourselves down to fit in’: Squeeze’s Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford on finally making the first album they wrote as teens
Written in 1974, the Bowie-influenced songs on Trixies are set in a fictional south London nightclub, but were shelved when punk took the band in a new direction. Now, after Squeeze’s 50th anniversary...
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Ooh, intriguing. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
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Cursed shelves and ghoulish libraries... 👻
Dive into fourteen tales featuring bewitched books in The Haunted Library, for lovers of the weird and the written word.
Available now: shop.bl.uk/products/the-haunted-library-tales-of-cursed-books-and-forbidden-shelves
Dive into fourteen tales featuring bewitched books in The Haunted Library, for lovers of the weird and the written word.
Available now: shop.bl.uk/products/the-haunted-library-tales-of-cursed-books-and-forbidden-shelves
November 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Cursed shelves and ghoulish libraries... 👻
Dive into fourteen tales featuring bewitched books in The Haunted Library, for lovers of the weird and the written word.
Available now: shop.bl.uk/products/the-haunted-library-tales-of-cursed-books-and-forbidden-shelves
Dive into fourteen tales featuring bewitched books in The Haunted Library, for lovers of the weird and the written word.
Available now: shop.bl.uk/products/the-haunted-library-tales-of-cursed-books-and-forbidden-shelves
No, YOU'RE wiping away a tear.
November 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
No, YOU'RE wiping away a tear.
I'd assumed after all these years that Bond/007 was a pseudonym/job role, hence different actors playing him (and therefore, anyone could play him). I didn't realise it was meant to be the same person.
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I'd assumed after all these years that Bond/007 was a pseudonym/job role, hence different actors playing him (and therefore, anyone could play him). I didn't realise it was meant to be the same person.
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We're in safe hands: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaXY...
Sparks - Now That I Own The BBC (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by S P A R K S
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:22 AM
We're in safe hands: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaXY...
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Good God, someone's just uploaded to YouTube a nearly 2-hour long video of one of the original Vic Reeves Big Night Out live shows at the Albany Empire from 1989. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKPU...
Vic Reeves Big Night Out - 30 April 1989
YouTube video by Peter Brooke Turner
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Good God, someone's just uploaded to YouTube a nearly 2-hour long video of one of the original Vic Reeves Big Night Out live shows at the Albany Empire from 1989. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKPU...
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It’s getting to that point in my life where I’m starting to think if there’s actually been anything good on the television since Alexei Sayle’s Stuff 🤔
Alexei Sayle's Stuff (9th November 1989). The latest teenage craze is a rather unexpected one.
And Pete Murray has a complaint from 1960.
And Pete Murray has a complaint from 1960.
November 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
It’s getting to that point in my life where I’m starting to think if there’s actually been anything good on the television since Alexei Sayle’s Stuff 🤔
The reason I love archive TV so much is that you wouldn't have a hope in hell's chance of having something like The Journey (1977) made or shown today; George Melly reminiscing about surrealism. Most TV is now so anodyne. Arena, Art and Design: The Journey: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002k96l
Arena - Art and Design: The Journey
Singer and writer George Melly takes a walk from his home in north London to the Hayward Gallery, reminiscing along the way about the influence of surrealism on his early life.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The reason I love archive TV so much is that you wouldn't have a hope in hell's chance of having something like The Journey (1977) made or shown today; George Melly reminiscing about surrealism. Most TV is now so anodyne. Arena, Art and Design: The Journey: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002k96l
I think it's about time this programme was repeated, BBC Four, particularly in light of this week's sad news about Gilson Lavis. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
BBC Four - Squeeze: Take Me I'm Yours
BBC Four - Squeeze: Take Me I'm Yours
BBC Four - Squeeze: Take Me I'm Yours
Film about the band based around the songwriting partnership of Difford and Tilbrook.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 8:09 AM
I think it's about time this programme was repeated, BBC Four, particularly in light of this week's sad news about Gilson Lavis. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
BBC Four - Squeeze: Take Me I'm Yours
BBC Four - Squeeze: Take Me I'm Yours
Bookmarks in returned library books go on display
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Bookmarks in returned South Molton Library books go on display
Bookmarks include receipts, shopping lists, children's creations and photos, staff say.
www.bbc.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Bookmarks in returned library books go on display
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Today's walk: moody. Glynde to Firle loop. Can recommend the reopened Trevor Arms pub in Glynde.
November 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Today's walk: moody. Glynde to Firle loop. Can recommend the reopened Trevor Arms pub in Glynde.
Well why can't they time travel back to now so that I can see them? That's just rude.
Plot twist - Missing Doctor Who episodes are missing because they were recovered by time travelling fans hoping to save them before they went missing.
November 8, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Well why can't they time travel back to now so that I can see them? That's just rude.
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I hadn't heard about this - the BBC is restricting access to its written archives. It feels like part of the bigger picture of shutting down anything that is a positive for producing and preserving knowledge in the UK.
WAC wrong-headedness
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
WAC wrong-headedness - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: Some of you will know that I have been very involved over the past months with attempts to reverse the wrong-headed changes to access at the BBC Written Archives Centre (above, with...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I hadn't heard about this - the BBC is restricting access to its written archives. It feels like part of the bigger picture of shutting down anything that is a positive for producing and preserving knowledge in the UK.
Friends fear he is going through another phase of listening to Genesis.
November 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Friends fear he is going through another phase of listening to Genesis.
Congratulations Lewes, you really know how to lose your shit. Back to normality tomorrow! (It's as though nothing has ever happened!) #LewesBonfire
November 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Congratulations Lewes, you really know how to lose your shit. Back to normality tomorrow! (It's as though nothing has ever happened!) #LewesBonfire
The essential #LewesBonfire survival kit! Have a good one tonight, Lewes!
November 5, 2025 at 8:11 AM
The essential #LewesBonfire survival kit! Have a good one tonight, Lewes!